Most factory workers who produce garments for the fashion industry are women. Studies show that women constitute 60-80% of ...

As the second-largest textile manufacturer in the world, Bangladesh often boasts its ready-made garment industry as a feminist revolution. It employs about 4 million workers, 80% of whom are women, ...

“When workers raise their voices, they are ignored. When they try to organize, they are threatened and sacked. And finally, ...

A group of activists have filed a complaint against Amazon with the UK Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ...

An investigation has uncovered a disturbing pattern of fainting at Nike factories in Cambodia, even after decades of efforts to improve labor monitoring and working conditions. ProPublica broke down ...

MINNEAPOLIS - Much of the clothing Americans buy is made overseas in developing nations, where workers often toil long hours in unsafe factories, risking their health and sometimes their lives for a ...

PHNOM PENH Oct 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The pandemic risks triggering a race to the bottom that could push tens of millions of Asian garment workers into greater hazard on the factory floor, ...

In the bracing morning air, workers leave their homes in the outer suburbs and hurry toward the industrial buildings lining the Guatemalan capital’s highways. Some go by foot. Others by motorcycle; ...

In Phnom Penh’s hot season, when the Cambodian capital’s sweltering, subtropical air routinely soars to 100 degrees, more workers than usual visited the infirmaries inside a factory that made baby ...

In Indonesia’s humid heat, I watched as dozens of men on motorcycles lingered outside the garment factory gates, their children hanging off their shoulders, as they waited for their partners to finish ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh's finance minister promised on Thursday to improve working conditions in the garment industry after a deadly factory collapse, but he spurned calls for new public money to ...